Digital Equipment Corp systems management provider Raxco Inc, Rockville, Maryland, and UK-based UIS Ltd, Epsom, Berkshire are to merge after more than a year of negotiations. The new entity called Raxco/UIS Inc will be headquartered in Raxco’s offices, Rockville. Former Raxco president and chief executive Richard Lefebvre will head the operation. The firm’s combined European operations will be run from UIS’s Epsom offices: existing UIS European subsidiaries will remain open. Raxco will close its Richmond, Surrey office and staff relocated to Epsom. The company will market a combined complement of DEC VAX/VMS and Ultrix software, comprising security management software, resource management and file and retrieval storage systems.
